President Trump on Tuesday said Congress should not consider any "final agreement" on election security that does not include provisions mandating voters present identification while casting ballots.

No debate on Election Security should go forward without first agreeing that Voter ID (Identification) must play a very strong part in any final agreement. Without Voter ID, it is all so meaningless! Trump tweeted Tuesday.

Trump has long touted unfounded claims that he only lost the 2016 popular vote by 3 million ballots because of millions of people who voted illegally.

The president went on to retweet a post claiming without evidence that certain areas in California, a reliably blue state, have more registered voters than adults.

The tweets come as Democrats pressure Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to take up two election security bills that have passed through the House. The legislation requires the use of paper ballots, includes funding for the Election Assistance Commission and mandates candidates, campaign officials and their family members to notify the FBI if foreign governments offer assistance.

McConnell has resisted calls to take up the bills, saying Democrats are trying to give themselves a political benefit and the request is not a serious effort to make a law.

Democrats renewed their calls for the Senate to boost election security after former special counsel Robert Mueller, who spent two years investigating Russia's election meddling in 2016, testified last month that Moscow is seeking to replicate its efforts next year.

Mueller's testimony was a clarion call for election security. Mueller's testimony should be a wake-up call to every American, Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative, that the integrity of our elections is at stake. This is all about the future of this country, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said last month.

Democrats renewed their calls for the Senate to boost election security after former special counsel Robert Mueller, who spent two years investigating Russia's election meddling in 2016, testified last month that Moscow is seeking to replicate its efforts next year.

1) Voters who have passports, or passport cards, may use them to identify themselves. Said passports need to be registered at time of registration or re-registrtion.

2) Voters who have drivers licenses that have the RealID feature may be used to identify themselves. The address on the license needs to match the address the voter provided at registration or re-registration.

3) Voters who have DMV-issued identity cards may use them to identify themselves. Proof of citizenship is required; see the valid forms accepted by the US Post Office for passports. The address on the identity card needs to match the address the voter provided at registration or re-registration.

Ideally, the DMV would make identity cards available at no charge, or a reduced charge. To make up the loss, the DMV could add a small tax surcharge to full license registrations so that the result is revenue neutral.

There is no excuse not to have positive voter ID.

The poor would be served by the DMV, for both ID and voter registration. The differently abled can be serviced by mobile ID registration stations at nursing homes, community centers, hospices, churches, and hospitals, with the schedule published in advance.

Paper ballots is a great idea without a voter I’d. All they need to do is verify that the person is a citizen and can vote, then assign the person a unique encrypted stamped ballot associated with an individual name, and a time stamp, all recorded on a local computer unattached to a network. Impossible to suddenly find a box of uncounted ballots, and impossible to hack

The left’s absurd assertion that it’s “racist” to demand an ID when voting needs to be laughed at, not accepted. They’re counting, I’m sure, on MASS fraud come election day. We need to take that card out of their deck.

I think the most important thing Republicans in 2019 can do is determine which Democrat would be a decent leader and assist in formation of a new party perhaps called the “True Democrats.:” I suspect many leftist voters are sick of what their party has become and the leaders proposed and would coalesce behind a good, reasonable Scoop Jackson like alternative with a traditional Democrat platform.

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